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Geoscience ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (02): 356-369.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.02.14

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Control of Eogenetic Karst Reservoir by Shoals in Middle Permian Maokou Formation, Southern Sichuan Basin

YANG Minglei(), ZHU Dancheng, LI Tao, LI Haiping, LI Ting, ZOU Huayao()   

  1. College of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
  • Received:2019-07-20 Revised:2019-10-15 Online:2020-05-25 Published:2020-05-25
  • Contact: ZOU Huayao

Abstract:

Shoals control the eogenetic karst reservoir of Maokou Formation in southern Sichuan Basin. However, research on the carbonate deposition and diagenetic characteristics in different sedimentary environments, especially on the influence of pore differential evolution after shallow burial on karstification, is inadequate. In this paper, based on outcrop, drill-core, petrographic thin-section and cathodoluminescence data, eight rock types are identified from the Maokou Formation in the study area. Three types of sedimentary environments are found to have developed in shoals (including high-/low-energy shoals), intershoal sea and open subtidal sedimentary environments. Bioclastic rocks in high-energy shoals have high porosity and permeability after their shallow burial, which are conducive to karstification influence and show large-scale layered caves and spotted zones of dissolution-filling. Porosity and permeability of bioclastic packstone in low-energy shoal are slightly lower than those of bioclastic rocks, and the scale of dissolution fractures and caves are smaller. Bioclastic wacky and marls in the intershoal sea and open subtidal environments are compacted before their shallow burial, and karst is not developed. The distribution of vertical shoal is controlled by the sea-level change, and high stand system tract of sequences (P2m2 and P2m3) are developed. The planar distribution of shoals is controlled by the sedimentary paleogeomorphologic changes formed by the basement uplift, and has a large thickness in the Luzhou paleo-uplift area. The layers of cave drilling anomalies and the locations of high-yield wells are consistent with those of the shoals, which indicates that the shoals exert a controlling effect on the eogenetic karst reservoirs.

Key words: karst reservoir, shoals, Maokou Formation, southern Sichuan Basin

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